Green Lantern #35

The triptych cover by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson lays out the threat in punchy sequential panels: a red-and-yellow costumed acrobat called the Aerialist taunts Green Lantern mid-air, then strikes back, and finally a desperate Hal Jordan clutches his own mask — now transformed to solid gold — crying out that he's doomed. "The Prisoner of the Golden Mask!" is a wonderfully inventive Silver Age premise, pitting Hal against a sky-high stuntman whose tricks strike at the ring-slinger's most vulnerable point. Gardner Fox's story and Gil Kane's kinetic art made 1965 a great time to follow DC's emerald hero.